Story+1978-11-21+Evanston,+IL

´´This is uh, this is for everybody up on the hill tonight....´Darkness on the Edge of Town´...”
 * 21.11.78 Evanston, IL, intro to ´Darkness on the Edge of Town´**

´´I´ll do this song, this is uh....(?) 20 bucks after the show....I´m not touching that, that´s disgusting....this is a, this is a new song, uh....that I wrote, originally wrote for the Darkness on the Edge of Town album....and if anybody (?) knows what´s it like to, whose father spent half your childhood in the kitchen (chuckles) you´ll know what I´m talking about, this is, this is for anybody that just left home this year or is thinking about it....this is called ´Independence Day´...”
 * 21.11.78 Evanston, IL, intro to ´Independence Day´**

´´Hey, little girl....it´s good.....to see you back again....it´s been such a long, long time....and baby, you´re still looking fine....and I remember you.....baby, I remember you....that pretty face.....standing on the corner....and I know you remember me too....yeah, I know you do.... when we used to hitchhike....outside of town.....to that old, old abandoned Cadillac (?)... baby´d take me riding...baby´d take me riding in back....little girl, we go riding in back..... and down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down we go .....down and down and down.....and down and down....(?)....”
 * 21.11.78 Evanston, IL, middle of ´Backstreets´**

‘‘Now, the following story....is true....the names have been changed...to protect....the good (chuckles)....see, I wasn’t always this wretched, brokenhearted soul standing before you ....I was in love once....true.....I had a girlfriend....we ran away from her mother and father and went to California....and then....she ran away from me.....that’s alright, I’m a lucky guy.... Rosie, wherever you are....come back home !...”
 * 21.11.78 Evanston, IL, intro to ‘Rosalita’**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//